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Confectionery shopping in France

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    Lefèvre-Lemoine

    Ahhh, they just don't make sweetshops like this 1840s treasure anymore. A bird chirps a welcome as you enter this world of sugar-coated nostalgia. One of the old-fashioned sweet tins made a cameo appearance in the film Amélie. Bergamotes de Nancy (boiled sweets made with bergamot, the citrus fruit that flavours Earl Grey tea), caramels, glazed mirabelles (plums) – decisions, decisions…

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